Project / Collection: Jaffna Protestant digital archive project / Language: English / Subject: Accounting and Finance - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP835/1/3
Title:: Proceedings of Meetings of Delegates of the three Tamil Missions 1838-1841
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is inaccurately titled. It consists of letters written by two successive secretaries of Foreign Correspondence for the ABCFM, Rufus Anderson (1796-1880) and Nathanial G. Clark (1825-?), addressed to the American Ceylon Mission between 1862 and 1879. These letters contain general in...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1862-1879
Extent:: 600 TIFF files

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP835/1/8
Title:: Letters to the Secretaries of the A.B.C.F.M. 1874
Scope & Content:: This file contains letters written by E.P. Hastings (?-1890) to Nathanial G. Clark (1825-?), Secretary of the A.B.C.F.M. The letters contain information on the mission's doings, financial details, estimates for financial burden of the following years, etc. Physical characteristics of original mat...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1874
Extent:: 228 TIFF files

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP835/2
Title:: Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India (JDCSI) Collection
Scope & Content:: This description comes in part from Professor Bernard Bate's finding aid for the JDCSI's archive, published in 2005. This collection consists mostly of manuscript materials "from the establishment of the American Ceylon Mission (ACM) in 1816 by the American Ceylon Board of Commissioners for Forei...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1816-1866
Extent:: 1300 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP835/2/5
Title:: Letters to B. Meigs from H. Hill, 1825-1838
Scope & Content:: This file consists of letters from Henry Hill (?-?), Treasurer of the A.B.C.F.M., addressed to Miron Winslow and Benjamin Meigs. These letters, sent from India, London, and Boston, concern funds for the ACM in the form of payments and donations for supplies and for Tamil children to attend school.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1825-1838
Extent:: 68 TIFF files

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP835/2/9
Title:: Letterbook Fragment, 1858-1866
Scope & Content:: This file contains copies of letters sent from E.P. Hastings (?-1890) to Rufus Anderson (1796-1880), Secretary of the ABCFM. These letters refer to ACM business and concerns such as methods for village schools, the uses of the Native Evangelical Society in Jaffna, and financial burdens as well as...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1858-1866
Extent:: 224 TIFF files

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